Human Rights

NOVANEWS East Jerusalem, 17 October 2011 (UNICEF) – UNICEF appealed today to the Zio-Nazi regime to release all Palestinian children currently in Zio-Nazi military detention, following the announcement that they will release Palestinian prisoners as part of a prisoner swap deal. As of 1 October, 164 Palestinians under 18 year of age were detained by Zio-Nazi Gistapo, most of them under charges of stone throwing. It is not clear whether the list of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners who are to be released in two stages includes children. “UNICEF calls on the Zio-Nazi regime to release Palestinian child detainees so that they can be reunited with their families”, said Jean Gough, UNICEF Special Representative in the occupied Palestinian territory. “As stated in the Convention on the Rights of ...

NOVANEWS Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip celebrated the recent release of prisoners from Israeli jails, but no imprisoned children were set free. GAZA CITY (IRIN) - While there have been emotional scenes after the release of 477 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, concerns are being raised about the plight of 164 Palestinian children from the West Bank in Israeli custody. They were either sentenced or are being detained, mainly for stone-throwing, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) which, along with other international organizations, is appealing to the Israeli government to release all Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. It is unclear whether the children will be part of the second wave of 550 releases in the coming two months. “...

NOVANEWS by Eileen Fleming Joharah Baker is Director of the Media and Information Department at the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH). She wrote: It has been just under a week since the historic deal between Hamas and Israel saw the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for 1,027 Palestinian political prisoners. In Israel, an entire nation let out a sigh of relief that their son had come home safely. There is no arguing the intense human aspect behind this prisoner release. But what so much of the western press in particular has bypassed so far is the human aspect of our prisoners, who unlike Shalit, have been bunched up into one unappealing category: murderers, terrorists, people out for blood. And who wants to give a human story...

by Jonathan Cook  Over the past 15 months the dusty plains of the northern Negev desert in Israel have been witness to a ritual of destruction, part of a police operation known as Hot Wind. On 29 occasions since June 2010, hundreds of Israeli paramilitary officers have made the pilgrimage over a dirt track near the city of Beersheva to the zinc sheds and hemp tents of al-‘Araqib. Within hours of their arrival, the 45 ramshackle structures -- home to some 300 Bedouin villagers -- are pulled down and al-‘Araqib is wiped off the map once again. All that remains to mark the area’s inhabitation by generations of the al-Turi tribe are the stone graves in the cemetery. The al-Turis are determined to stay on their ancestral lands to maintain their traditional pastoral way of life; Israel wants ...

NOVANEWS “ … disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people …” (United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Eleanor Roosevelt and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Spanish (wiki) By Prof. William A. Cook Today the American people, in concert with their brothers and sisters around the world, proclaim the rights to which they are entitled by birth and citizenship, by Constitutional law and Proclamation, and by membership in the collective body of nations that has universalized recognition of these right...

NOVANEWS Jillian Kestler-D'Amours   Thousands of Palestinian children in East Jerusalem face crowded, sub-standard classrooms while Israel attempts to censor Palestinian identity in school. Palestinian activists, parents and students are fighting against the Israeli authorities’ recent push to impose an Israeli curriculum on East Jerusalem schools, which they say threatens the city’s Palestinian culture and identity. “Through the move of distortion in the Palestinian curriculum, the Israeli occupation authorities are willing to complete the project of achieving total domination over both the Palestinian land and the Palestinian human while depriving him from his culture and his history, thus tampering with the collective identity of Palestinians,” said Abdel Karim Lafi...

NOVANEWS by crescentandcross UN human rights rapporteur for the Palestinian territories Richard Falk calls on Israel to adopt international guidelines for protection of Palestinian children living under Israeli occupation. A United Nations human rights expert urged on Thursday the international community to step up efforts to protect Palestinians children living in the West Bank, whom he claimed are subject to violence and arrest at the hands of Israeli authorities. In a statement to the UN General Assembly, Richard Falk, a former New York University professor, cited particular cases in which Palestinian children in the West Bank were arrested or subjected to violence. The UN human rights rapporteur for the Palestinian territories called on Israel to adopt international guidelines for t...

NOVANEWS    FOA ended its 24 hour hunger strike at 6pm on the 20th of October whilst distributing leaflets about Palestinian Prisoners outside University College Union. A stall was held directly afterwards at an event entitled ‘Why we should Boycott Israel on Campus’ organised by various London Palestine Societies where FOA had the opportunity to engage with many students about its campaigns. Shamiul Joarder, Head of Public Affairs said ‘The 24 hour hunger strike was the start of our campaign and we plan to draw attention specifically to the 164 child prisoners who are still being held by Israel. The crime of the majority of these children was throwing stones at Israeli armoured personnel carriers, which carries an inexplicable sentence of between 6 months and a year.’ As part of the priso...

by Eileen Fleming Gandhi pointed out three possible responses to oppression and injustice. The coward’s way out, which is to accept the wrong and run away, or to stand and fight by force of arms, but the third and best way is to fight by speaking truth and remaining physically nonviolent. The Palestinian Gandhi Project is a joint “labor of love” of two women, who I am blessed to know as friends and sisters in the good fight for justice and peace who are grounded in compassion and outraged over the brutal truth. I met journalist and marketing communications consultant, Pam Bailey in June 2009, when I was ‘embedded’ with a Code Pink delegation who had been invited to Gaza to build playgrounds and witness the facts on the ground, post Cast Lead. Those reports: MasterCard and the Extremis...

NOVANEWS Click the Link to Watch All http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaDcN0p2gqQ Demolitions and evacuations of the Negev Beduins - a talk by Miri Weingarten. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "New Profile" group. To post to this group, send email to newprofile@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to newprofile+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at : http://groups.google.com/group/newprofile?hl=en. Miri Weingarten - The Case of Al-Araqib, 17.10....